Sam Altman on Confidence Quotes

"The most successful people are often the most confident, but they are also the most curious."

"Confidence is the result of many small victories stacked on top of each other."

"Confidence comes from a history of doing things that were hard."

"The most successful founders have a high degree of self-belief, but they are also very open to being told they are wrong."

"Don't wait for someone else to give you permission to be great."

"If you want to do something great, you have to believe it's possible before there's any proof."

"Being confident doesn't mean you're never scared; it means you keep going anyway."

"If you are right about something that everyone else is wrong about, that is where the value is created."

"Confidence is the fuel that gets you through the trough of sorrow."

"The best founders are often the ones who were told 'no' a hundred times but kept going."

"You need to have a core of self-belief that is not shaken by what other people think."

"It is much easier to be confident when you are working on something that actually matters."

"Build things that people want, and your confidence will grow as you see them use it."

"Believe in the compounding of your own efforts."

"If you don't believe in yourself, it's very hard to let yourself have contrarian ideas about the future."

"Most people are stopped by fear of failure, but the confident know that failure is just a data point."

"You have to be willing to be misunderstood for a long time if you want to do something new."

"Learn to trust your intuition; it's often your brain processing patterns you haven't consciously identified yet."

"Self-confidence is a competitive advantage that compounds over time."

"The world is much more malleable than most people think, but you have to have the confidence to push on it."

"Most people are too afraid to take risks because they lack the confidence that they can recover if things go wrong."

"Cultivate a small group of people who believe in you when you don't believe in yourself."

"Success is not a straight line, and you need self-belief to navigate the curves."

"Self-belief is immensely powerful. The most successful people I know believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion."

"The most important thing is to just keep going. Persistence is a form of confidence."

"Don't outsource your conviction to the market or to investors."

"The level of confidence you need to start a company is different from the level you need to scale one."

"The best way to build confidence is to actually be good at what you do."

"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner conviction."

"You have to believe that you are the person who can solve the problem."

"A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try."

"You should be confident enough to ignore advice that doesn't feel right, even from smart people."

"Manage your own morale. It’s very hard to keep going when you don’t believe you’re going to win."